Ice pick



rata-aaa nav.. ia, ieee. lhllifob ROBERT E. OF ALEXANDRA, VIRGINIA.

CE PICK.

Application le. September 14, 19521. Serial. No. 500,571.

To allwwmz'tmafz/ concern: shown, said member having upwardly ex- Be it known that l, ROBERT E. MGGAHEY, tending lips 21 and 22. a citizen of the United States, residing at ln the use of my device the nut 17 may be Alexandria, in the county of Alexandria and moved up against the flange 14, when the 5 State of Virginia, have invented certain handle will have no movement relative to 60 new and useful Improvements in Ice Picks, the pick member. Adjustment of nuts 17 of which the following is a specification. and 18 will if desired provide a variable My said invention relates to an improved amount of lost motion to vary the impact of ice pick and it is an object of the invention the handle. The member 15 being removed 'lo to provide a device of this character which from the handle by slipping the cap 13 off 65 shall be combined with other tools so as to the same, will leave the lips 21 and 22 exprovide in combination with an ice pick posed for use to remove metallic Stoppers in which the handle may be moved relafrom bottles. lf the member 2O is retively to the header not as desired, other moved to expose the corkscrew this may then 15 tools which normally are concealed within be inserted in a cork in ordinary manner to 70 the handl@ draw the same. `When the handle is thus Referring to the accompanying drawings separated from the remainder of the dewhich are made a part hereof and on which vice it may be slipped over the point of the similar reference characters indicate similar pick member to protect the hands of the 2o parts, user from injury, if desired. 75

Figure 1 is a vertical elevation of my de- Having thus fully described my said invice partly in section, and vention, what I claim as new and desire to Figs. 2 and 3 are details. secure by Letters Patent is: ln the drawings 10 indicates a handle hav- 1. An ice pick comprising a pick member ing a central cavity at 11. This handle is having screw-threads adjacent its upper ex- S0 preferably flat at the Lipper end as shown tremity, a pair of nuts thereon, a hollow and has a band 12 extending about said end handle surrounding` said upper extremity of to prevent excessive wear due to the use of the pick member, and a cap embracing the the pick as a hammer in breaking up ice. At lower portion of the handle and having a 50 the lower end is a cylindrical reduced porflange extending between said nuts, substan- 85 tion encircled by a cap 13 having an intially as and for the purpose set forth. wardly extending flange 1li for holding the 2. ln an ice pick, a pick member havremaining parts of the pick in place with ing screw-threads adjacent its upper exreference to the handle. tremity, a pair of nuts thereon, a hollow a5 rllhe pick proper comprises a shank 15 handle surrounding said upper extremity of oo pointed at its lower end and having a head the pick member and adapted to be recipro- 16, `a portion of the intermediate space becated on the pick member, the nuts limiting ing screw-threaded for the reception of a the length of the stroke, substantially as set nut 17. ln the use of the device the nut forth.

40 17 is normally positioned at the lower 3. In an ice pick, a pick member, a han- 95 end of the screw-threaded portion and limits dle on one end thereof and slidable back the downward movement of the head and forth thereon for striking the pick memrelative to the pick member 15. The ber a hammer blow, and means for varying extent of the relative upward movethe stroke of the handle in both directions,

t5 ment is determined by means of a nut 18 substantially as set forth. 100 also on the threaded portion of the shank 4L. In an ice pick, a pick member having a just below the head 16. Adjustment of these pointed end, a handle slidably mounted on nuts relative to each other serves to deterthe other end of the pick member, a pair of mine the extent of movement of the handle nuts mounted on the pick member adapted 60 relative to the shank. to limit the movement of the handle in either 105 it the upper end of the member 15 a corkdirection, and means for adjusting either or .screw 19 is inserted in the head 16 and prefboth of said nuts to vary the length of stroke erably projects vertically upward thereof the handle, substantially as set forth. from. ifi hollow cylindrical member 2O sur- 5. An ice pick comprising a pick member,

55 rounds the corkscrew when in the position a hollow handle surrounding the upper part 110 of the pick member and adapted to enclose my hand and .seal at Washington, Disitrict of and conceal one orA more tools, said handle Columbia, this` 14th day of September,A. D.

having a reciprocating movement upon the nineteen hundred and'twentylone. 10 pick member and having a pair of adjust- ROBERT E. MCGAHEY. [11. 5.]

5 able abutments to limit` its motion irl-both Witnesses;- l

directions, substantially as set forth. E. W. BRADFORD,

ln Witness whereof, I have hereunto'- set 0. M. KEYS. 

